1 debhelper (7.0.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:56:49 -0400
7 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Convert copyright file to new format.
10 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
14 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
17 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
21 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
24 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
25 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
26 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
27 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
28 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
29 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
30 logging by dh_listpackages.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
34 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
37 run and there are no packages of that type.
38 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
39 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
40 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
41 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
43 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
44 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
48 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
50 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
51 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
52 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
56 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
59 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
60 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
62 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
63 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
64 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
65 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
66 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
67 planned but not yet implemented.)
68 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
69 if the Makefile has such a target.
70 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
71 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
72 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
73 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
74 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
75 but not yet implemented.)
76 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
77 recommended default, especially when using dh.
78 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
79 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
80 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
82 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
84 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
85 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
87 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
88 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
89 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
94 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
97 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
98 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
102 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
104 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
105 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
106 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
110 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
116 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
122 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
125 just those installed by the program.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
129 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
132 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
133 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
137 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
140 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
141 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
142 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
143 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
147 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
149 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
150 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
151 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
155 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
158 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
159 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
163 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
166 with policy. Closes: #461392
167 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
168 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
169 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
170 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
171 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
175 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
178 Closes: #460340, #460351
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
182 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
185 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
186 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
187 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
188 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
192 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
195 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
196 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
197 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
198 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
199 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
200 package build directory won't work.
201 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
202 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
203 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
204 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
205 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
206 mode. Closes: #459426
207 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
212 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
215 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
219 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
223 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
224 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
225 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
226 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
227 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
228 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
232 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
235 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
236 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
237 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
238 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
242 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
245 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
246 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
247 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
248 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
249 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
253 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
256 debian/package.triggers files.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
260 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
263 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
267 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
270 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
271 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
272 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
273 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
278 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
281 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
285 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
288 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
289 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
291 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
296 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
300 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
301 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
302 * Typo. Closes: #441272
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
306 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
313 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
320 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
323 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
325 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
326 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
327 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
329 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
330 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
331 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
335 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
338 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
339 * Update urls to web page.
340 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
342 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
343 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
347 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
350 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
351 - typo in alternatives call
352 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
354 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
355 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
359 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
362 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
367 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
373 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
379 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
382 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
384 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
385 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
386 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
387 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
388 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
389 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
390 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
391 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
392 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
393 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
394 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
398 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
401 package install. Closes: #415717
402 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
403 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
404 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
405 script and then remove the python files.
406 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
407 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
408 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
409 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
410 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
411 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
412 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
413 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
414 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
415 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
416 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
417 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
418 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
422 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Correct typo in french translation
428 * Typo. Closes: #400571
429 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
431 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
433 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
434 Closes: #406921, #381940
435 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
437 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
438 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
439 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
440 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
441 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
442 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
443 specified). Closes: #381851
444 * Misc minor changes.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
448 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
455 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
456 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
460 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
466 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
467 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
470 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
471 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
473 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
474 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
475 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
476 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
480 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
483 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
486 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
490 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
496 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
502 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
503 a difficult situation.
504 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
505 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
506 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
507 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
508 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
509 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
510 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
511 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
512 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
513 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
517 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Non-maintainer upload.
520 * Update of dh_python
521 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
522 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
524 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
525 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
526 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
527 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
528 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
530 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
532 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Non-maintainer upload.
535 * Update of dh_python
536 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
537 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
538 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
539 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
540 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
541 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
542 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
543 specific python version. Closes: #373853
544 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
545 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
547 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
548 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
549 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
550 the not too-distant future).
551 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
552 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
553 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
554 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
555 thus made the build fail.
557 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
559 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Non-maintainer upload.
562 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
564 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
566 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
569 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
570 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
571 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
572 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
573 package. Closes: #301424
574 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
575 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
576 fonts). Closes: #372686
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
580 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
586 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
587 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
588 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
589 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
590 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
591 above, but already depends on that.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
595 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
598 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
599 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
600 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
601 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
602 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
606 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
612 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
618 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
619 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
623 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
626 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
630 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
634 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
635 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
636 new version (0.24.1).
637 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
638 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
641 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
642 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
643 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
644 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
645 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
646 new directory on their own.
647 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
648 * Fix broken directory removal code.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
652 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
655 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
656 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
657 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
658 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
662 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
665 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
666 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
667 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
668 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
669 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
673 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
679 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Typo. Closes: #358904
683 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
684 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
688 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
689 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
693 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
695 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
696 || exit 0 instead of the intended
698 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
699 ignored. Closes: #337664
701 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
706 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
708 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
712 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
717 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
718 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
719 the dh_installdebconf manpage
720 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
721 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
722 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
723 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
727 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
730 version. Closes: #350607
731 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
732 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
733 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
734 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
738 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
741 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
742 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
743 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
747 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
754 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Minor bug fix from last release.
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
760 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
763 language guessing. Closes: #193221
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
767 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
770 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
771 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
772 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
773 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
774 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
775 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
779 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
782 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
783 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
788 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
791 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
795 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
798 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
802 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
805 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
806 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
807 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
808 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
809 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
810 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
814 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
817 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
818 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
819 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
820 link. Closes: #346405
821 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
824 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
825 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
826 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
827 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
828 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
829 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
833 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
840 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
842 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
846 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
849 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
853 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
856 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
861 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
865 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
866 installed. Closes: #342033
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
870 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
873 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
874 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
875 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
880 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
886 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
892 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
896 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
897 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
898 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
902 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
905 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
910 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
917 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
923 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
925 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
926 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
927 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
928 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
929 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
930 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
931 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
932 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
934 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
938 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
941 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
942 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
946 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
949 in standard man dirs.
950 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
954 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
960 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
963 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
968 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
975 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
982 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
985 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
986 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
990 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
992 * NMU with maintainer approval.
993 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
994 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
995 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
997 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
999 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1005 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1011 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1014 mode. Closes: #324161
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1018 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1021 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1022 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1023 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1024 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1029 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1032 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1033 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1034 is necesary for sanity.
1035 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1036 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1041 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1043 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1044 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1048 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1051 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1055 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1061 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1064 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1065 released, so use at your own risk.
1066 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1067 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1069 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1070 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1071 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1072 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1073 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1074 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1075 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1076 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1077 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1078 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1079 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1080 including twice per config file line now..
1081 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1082 and simplfy the rules file.
1083 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1084 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1085 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1087 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1088 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1092 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1095 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1099 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1102 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1106 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1109 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1113 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1116 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1117 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1118 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1119 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1120 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1121 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1125 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1128 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1129 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1130 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1135 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1138 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1139 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1144 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1147 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1148 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1149 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1154 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1157 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1158 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1159 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1163 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1169 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1176 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1179 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1180 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1181 unknown. Closes: #282924
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1185 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1192 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Spanish man page updates.
1195 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1200 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1206 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1209 * dh_desktop: reindent
1210 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1211 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1215 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1221 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1223 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1227 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1229 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1233 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1236 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1237 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1241 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1247 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1253 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1260 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1263 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1267 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1270 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1271 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1272 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1273 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1274 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1275 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1277 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1278 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1279 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1280 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1281 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1282 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1283 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1284 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1285 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1286 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1287 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1288 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1289 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1290 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1291 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1292 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1296 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1303 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1306 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1310 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1313 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1317 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1320 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1324 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1327 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1331 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1337 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1343 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1349 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1352 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1353 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1354 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1358 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1361 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1365 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1368 but occasionally right and necessary.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1372 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1375 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1376 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1377 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1378 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1379 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1383 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1386 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1388 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1389 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1390 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1391 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1392 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1393 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1394 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1395 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1396 postinst scripts for udebs.
1397 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1401 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1404 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1406 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1407 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1411 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1417 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1424 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1431 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1434 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1438 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1441 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1445 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1448 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1451 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1452 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1456 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1462 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1465 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1469 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1472 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1473 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1474 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1476 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1478 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1479 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1480 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1484 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1487 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1492 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1495 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1496 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1497 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1502 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1508 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1514 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1517 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1518 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1519 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1520 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1521 associated -dbg packages.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1525 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1528 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1532 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1535 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1539 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1542 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1546 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1549 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1554 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1557 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1561 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1564 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1569 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1572 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1576 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1580 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1581 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1582 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1583 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1584 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1585 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1586 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1587 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1588 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1589 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1593 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1596 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1601 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1604 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1605 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1609 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1612 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1613 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1618 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1621 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1625 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1628 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1632 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1635 out section number. Closes: #204731
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1639 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1646 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1652 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1658 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1661 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1662 removal. Closes: #204286
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1666 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1669 renaming. Closes: #203548
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1673 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1676 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1677 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1681 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1687 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1693 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1699 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1702 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1703 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1704 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1708 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1711 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1712 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1716 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1722 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1729 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1732 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1737 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1740 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1747 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1749 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1750 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1754 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1757 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1762 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1765 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1769 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1775 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1777 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1781 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1784 it break hard links (see #188663).
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1788 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1791 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1801 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1805 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1806 debconf-mergetemplates
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1810 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1813 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1817 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1820 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1824 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1827 * Update debhelper(1).
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1831 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1834 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1835 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1836 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1837 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1838 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1842 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1845 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1846 the shell. Closes: #178524
1847 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1851 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1854 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1858 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1861 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1865 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1868 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1869 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1870 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1871 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1876 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1879 files from installation.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1883 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1886 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1887 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1891 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1894 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1898 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1901 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1905 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1911 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1917 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1921 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1922 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1924 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1928 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1931 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1932 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1933 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1934 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1938 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1941 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1945 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1948 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1949 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1953 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1957 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1968 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1972 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1973 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1974 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1979 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1982 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1983 practice. Closes: #163303
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1993 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2003 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2005 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2006 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2007 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2008 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2009 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2016 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2034 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2037 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2048 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2060 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2067 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2070 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2071 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2072 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2073 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2078 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2091 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2094 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2095 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2099 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2102 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2103 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2104 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2105 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2106 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2110 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2113 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2115 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2120 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2123 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2130 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2131 right thing. Closes: #150644
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Stupid, evil typo.
2138 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2142 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2149 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2152 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2153 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2164 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2167 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2171 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2174 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2175 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2180 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2183 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2187 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2196 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2197 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Removing perl warning message.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2213 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2216 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2217 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2218 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2219 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2220 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2221 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2222 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2223 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2227 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2233 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2240 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2243 debconf-mergetemplate.
2244 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2245 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2249 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2252 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2253 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2254 dh_install, which ...
2255 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2256 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2257 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2258 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2259 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2260 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2261 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2262 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2263 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2264 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2265 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2266 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2267 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2268 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2269 other minor changes.
2270 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2271 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2272 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2273 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2274 course there's -X ..)
2275 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2276 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2277 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2279 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2280 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2281 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2282 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2283 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2288 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2294 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2297 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2301 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2307 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2313 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2319 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2325 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2328 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2329 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2330 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2331 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2333 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2334 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2338 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2344 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2347 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2351 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2354 upset. Closes: #131322
2356 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2358 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2361 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2362 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2363 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2364 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2365 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2366 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2367 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2368 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2369 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2370 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2371 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2372 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2373 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2374 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2375 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2377 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2381 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2384 - Better indenting of generated code.
2385 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2389 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2393 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2394 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2395 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2396 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2397 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2398 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2399 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2403 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2406 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2410 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2413 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2414 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2415 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2416 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2417 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2418 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2419 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2420 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2421 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2422 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2423 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2424 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2425 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2426 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2427 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2432 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2438 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2441 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2442 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2446 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2449 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2450 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2454 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2460 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2463 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2464 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2465 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2466 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2467 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2472 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2478 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2481 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2485 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2488 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2493 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2499 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2502 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2506 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2512 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2516 Also some indentation fixes.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2520 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2523 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2524 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2525 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2526 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2527 Closes: #106514, #85520
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2531 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2537 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2543 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2549 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2555 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2561 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2564 change it in debhelper v4..
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2568 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2574 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2577 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2581 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2584 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2588 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2594 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2597 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2598 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2599 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2600 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2601 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2602 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2603 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2604 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2605 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2606 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2607 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2608 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2612 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2615 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2619 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2626 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2629 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2630 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2631 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2632 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2633 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2634 program those options go to. So, for example,
2635 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2636 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2637 something complex. Closes: #89311
2638 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2642 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2645 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2646 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2647 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2651 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2654 through loop. Closes: #98598
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2658 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Missing semi-colon.
2661 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2662 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2666 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2669 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2670 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2671 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2675 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2678 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2679 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2683 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2686 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2690 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2693 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2694 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2698 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2701 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2702 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2703 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2707 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2710 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2711 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2712 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2716 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2719 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2723 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2729 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2735 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2741 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2747 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2750 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2754 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2757 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2758 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2759 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2760 followed. Closes: #85483
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2764 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2766 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2767 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2768 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2772 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2775 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2776 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2777 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2778 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2779 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2780 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2781 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2782 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2783 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2784 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2785 Closes: #88464, #77743
2786 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2787 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2788 us to deal with that gracefully.
2789 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2791 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2792 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2793 a while, Closes: #51225
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2797 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2803 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2806 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2810 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2814 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2819 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2822 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2823 don't make packlist files.
2824 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2825 debhelper coding standards.
2826 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2827 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2831 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2834 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2838 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2841 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2842 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2843 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2844 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2845 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2846 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2847 but is mildly deprecated.
2848 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2849 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2850 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2851 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2852 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2853 switching to statoverrides..
2854 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2855 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2856 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2857 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2858 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2859 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2861 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2862 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2863 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2864 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2865 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2866 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2867 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2868 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2869 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2871 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2872 variable names, pod man pages).
2873 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2874 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2875 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2876 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2877 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2878 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2879 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2883 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2889 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2896 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2899 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2903 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2905 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2906 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2907 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2911 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2913 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2914 they were previously ignored.
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2918 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2920 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2921 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2925 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2927 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2928 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2929 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2933 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2935 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2939 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2941 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2942 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2946 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2948 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2949 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2950 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2951 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2952 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2953 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2954 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2955 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2956 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2957 it is an obsolete program.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2961 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2963 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2967 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2971 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2973 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2977 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2979 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2981 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2983 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2987 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2993 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * typo: Closes, #78567
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2999 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3005 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3011 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3014 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3015 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3016 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3017 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3018 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3022 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3025 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3030 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3033 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3034 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3035 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3036 backwards-compatability.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3040 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3043 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3044 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3045 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3046 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3047 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3048 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3050 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3051 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3052 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3054 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3056 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3057 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3058 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3059 should now be raised to severity important..
3060 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3061 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3065 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3068 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3073 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3079 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3085 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3091 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3098 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3101 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3102 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3103 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3104 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3108 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3114 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3117 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3118 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3119 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3120 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3121 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3122 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3127 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3130 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3134 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3140 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3143 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3148 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3151 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3152 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3153 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3154 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3158 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3162 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3165 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3168 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3169 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3172 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3174 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3175 the TODO entry about it.
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3179 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3186 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3189 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3190 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3194 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3197 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3198 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3199 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3200 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3204 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3210 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3217 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3220 (this appears to be logal).
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3224 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3227 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3228 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3229 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3230 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3234 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3240 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3243 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3244 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3245 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3246 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3250 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3256 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3259 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3263 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3270 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3273 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3274 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3275 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3280 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3287 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3293 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3296 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3297 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3298 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3299 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3300 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3301 notice until v2 is complete.
3302 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3303 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3304 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3305 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3306 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3307 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3309 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3310 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3311 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3312 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3316 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3322 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3329 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3332 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3336 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3343 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3346 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3347 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3348 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3349 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3354 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3357 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3358 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3359 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3364 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3367 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3368 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3372 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3375 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3379 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3382 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3386 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3393 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3396 depend on the build and install targets.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3400 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3403 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3407 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3414 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3420 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3426 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3429 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3430 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3431 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3432 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3433 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3434 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3436 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3437 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3438 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3439 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3440 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3441 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3442 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3446 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3452 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3458 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3461 right place. Closes: #55065
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3465 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3472 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3475 * Copyright date updates.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3479 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3482 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3487 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3493 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3500 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3506 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3512 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3518 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3521 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3522 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3523 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3524 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3525 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3526 bits until all files have been registered.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3530 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_installmanpages:
3533 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3534 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3535 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3536 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3537 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3538 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3539 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3540 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3541 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3542 otherwise change the result at all.
3544 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3545 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3546 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3547 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3548 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3553 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3559 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3562 act on files that don't exist.
3563 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3564 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3565 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3567 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3568 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3569 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3570 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3574 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3580 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3586 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3589 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3593 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3596 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3598 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3599 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3600 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3604 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3607 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3608 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3609 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3610 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3611 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3612 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3613 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3615 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3617 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3621 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3628 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3634 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3640 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3643 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3647 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3653 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3659 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3662 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3663 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3664 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3665 I made some changes, though:
3666 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3667 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3668 that is a clear violation of policy.
3669 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3670 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3671 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3672 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3673 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3674 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3675 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3676 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3677 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3679 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3683 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3692 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3696 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3699 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3700 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3705 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3711 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3718 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3721 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3722 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3723 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3724 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3725 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3726 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3727 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3731 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3737 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3741 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3742 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3746 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3752 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3755 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3759 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3762 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3763 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3767 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3769 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3774 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3778 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3782 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3785 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3786 for the dependancies to be generated.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3790 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3793 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3797 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3800 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3801 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3802 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3807 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3810 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3811 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3815 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3821 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3827 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3830 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3834 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3840 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3843 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3844 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3845 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3846 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3847 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3848 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3849 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3850 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3851 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3852 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3853 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3854 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3858 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3861 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3862 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3864 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3865 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3866 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3867 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3868 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3869 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3871 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3872 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3876 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3879 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3883 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3890 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3893 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3898 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3901 for building debhelper.
3902 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3913 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3916 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3920 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3923 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3924 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3925 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3926 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3927 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3928 it's always available.
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3932 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3935 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3936 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3937 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3944 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3945 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3955 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3958 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3962 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3968 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3971 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3972 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3973 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3977 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3980 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3985 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3988 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3989 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3991 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3992 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3996 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4002 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4008 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4011 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4015 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4018 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4019 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4021 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4025 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4028 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4029 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4030 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4034 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4037 things if CDPATH is set.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4041 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4047 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4050 seems to make sense for the transition.
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4054 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4057 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4065 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4066 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4073 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4080 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4081 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4082 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4083 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4087 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4093 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4096 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4097 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4098 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4099 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4100 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4101 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4102 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4103 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4104 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4105 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4110 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4113 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4114 * README: mention doc/v2
4115 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4116 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4120 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4122 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4123 be using this script RSN.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4127 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4130 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4131 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4132 more than 1 init script.
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4136 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4139 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4143 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Changed perl version detection.
4146 * Changed call to find.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4150 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4153 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4155 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4160 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * Really include dh_installpam.
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4166 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4169 * Wrote man page for same.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4173 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4176 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4177 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4182 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4189 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4192 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4193 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4194 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4195 x bit was being set!
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4199 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4202 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4203 well. (Closes: 38900)
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4207 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4210 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4211 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4215 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4221 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4228 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4234 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4237 help from Julian Gilbey.
4238 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4239 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4240 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4241 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4242 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4243 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4244 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4249 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4255 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4262 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4268 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4274 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4277 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4281 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4284 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4288 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4291 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4295 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4301 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4304 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4308 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4314 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4320 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4323 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4324 may be deleted. (#35845)
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4328 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * Various man page enhancements.
4331 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4336 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4339 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4340 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4344 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4347 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4348 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4349 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4351 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4352 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4357 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4363 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * Another very minor typo fix.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4369 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * Very minor typo fix.
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4375 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4378 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4379 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4383 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4389 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4392 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4393 variables properly (#34850).
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4397 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4403 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4406 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4407 (automatically generated by build process).
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4411 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4413 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4417 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4420 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4421 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4423 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4427 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4430 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4434 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * README: minor typo fix.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4440 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4443 leave it at that. :-)
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4447 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4453 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4459 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4462 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4463 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4464 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4468 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4471 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4475 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4478 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4482 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4485 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4486 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4487 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4488 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4492 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4495 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4496 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4497 Craig Small for spotting this.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4501 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4504 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4505 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4509 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4515 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4518 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4522 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4524 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4525 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4526 working on the last version of debhelper.
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4530 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4533 being made. (#23255)
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4537 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4543 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4546 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4550 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4553 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4554 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4555 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4556 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4560 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4563 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4564 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4565 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4566 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4568 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4569 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4571 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4576 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4582 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4588 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4591 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4592 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4593 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4594 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4595 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4596 suidregister actually supports it.
4597 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4598 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4602 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4609 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4612 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4613 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4614 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4615 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4616 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4617 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4618 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4622 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4624 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4625 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4629 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4632 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4633 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4634 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4635 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4639 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4642 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4644 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4645 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4646 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4647 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4648 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4649 effect, either. (#30118)
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4653 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4659 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4662 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4663 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4667 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4673 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4676 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4677 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4678 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4679 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4683 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4686 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4687 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4691 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4697 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4700 packages, painlessly.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4704 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4710 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4716 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4722 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * The perl conversion is complete.
4726 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4728 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4729 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4730 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4735 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4738 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4739 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4740 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4744 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4747 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4749 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4751 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4752 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4756 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4759 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4760 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4764 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4770 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4773 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4774 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4775 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4776 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4777 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4781 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4784 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4785 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4786 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4787 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4791 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4794 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4798 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4801 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4802 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4803 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4804 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4805 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4806 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4807 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4808 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4812 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4818 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4821 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4822 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4823 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4828 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4831 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4835 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4838 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4842 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4845 sections of shared libraries.
4846 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4847 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4848 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4849 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4850 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4851 things you don't want them to.
4852 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4853 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4857 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4860 shared libraries. (#26414)
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4864 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4866 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4867 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4868 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4869 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4873 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4877 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4879 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4880 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4881 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4882 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4883 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4887 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4890 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4894 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4897 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4898 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4903 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4906 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4910 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4913 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4914 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4915 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4916 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4917 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4919 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4920 remove debian/files properly.
4921 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4922 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4923 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4924 * Removed bogus menu file.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4928 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4931 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4935 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4938 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4939 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4940 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4941 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4942 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4943 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4947 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4950 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4951 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4952 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4953 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4957 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4964 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4967 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4968 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4970 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4971 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4972 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4973 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4974 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4975 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4979 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4982 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4983 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4984 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4985 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4986 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4987 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4988 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4989 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4990 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4991 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4992 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4993 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4994 passed any switches.
4995 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4999 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5002 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5003 at all for a long while.
5004 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5005 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5006 large chunks in the process.
5007 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5008 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5009 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5014 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5017 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5019 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5024 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5027 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5028 that don't always have the same files in them.
5029 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5030 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5031 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5035 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5039 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5040 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5041 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5042 updating 27 man pages.
5043 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5044 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5045 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5046 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5047 programs act on. (#25247)
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5051 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5055 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5056 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5057 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5058 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5059 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5060 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5065 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5072 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5079 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5082 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5086 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5092 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5095 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5096 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5097 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5098 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5099 package by accident.
5100 * Is version 1.0 next?
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5104 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5107 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5108 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5112 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5115 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5116 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5117 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5118 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5119 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5121 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5126 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5129 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5130 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5134 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5137 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5141 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5144 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5145 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5150 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5156 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5159 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5160 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5165 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5171 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5174 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5175 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5176 past week. Thanks, guys!
5178 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5179 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5180 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5181 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5182 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5183 would do in the same situation.
5184 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5185 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5187 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5189 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5190 permissions changed.
5191 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5192 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5193 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5194 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5195 files are treated identically.
5196 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5197 * Minor man page fixes.
5198 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5199 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5200 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5204 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5207 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5208 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5209 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5210 use -X multiple times, too.
5211 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5212 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5216 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5219 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5220 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5224 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5227 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5231 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5234 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5235 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5236 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5237 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5238 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5239 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5240 shape if you're starting a new package.
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5244 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5247 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5251 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5254 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5255 because of missing symlinks.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5259 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5265 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5268 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5269 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5270 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5271 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5272 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5274 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5275 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5279 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5281 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5282 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5283 to be changed after the fact :-)
5284 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5288 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5290 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5291 no version string after the -V.
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5295 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5297 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5298 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5303 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5306 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5310 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5313 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5314 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5315 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5316 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5317 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5318 I always welcome corrections!
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5322 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5328 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5331 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5332 * Documented this new switch.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5336 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5339 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5340 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5341 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5342 no packages use the old behavior.
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5346 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5349 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5350 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5354 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5357 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5361 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5367 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5370 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5374 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5377 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5378 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5379 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5383 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5389 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5392 into the source package by accident.
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5396 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5399 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5400 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5401 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5402 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5403 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5404 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5409 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5413 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5414 inspired to implement some of it.
5415 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5419 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5422 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5426 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5429 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5430 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5434 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5437 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5438 have done.) (#17598)
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5442 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5448 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5454 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5457 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5461 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5464 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5465 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5469 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5472 argument processor in perl.
5473 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5474 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5475 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5476 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5480 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5483 type directories. (#16933)
5484 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5485 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5486 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5487 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5488 are supported. (#16935)
5489 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5494 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5497 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5501 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5505 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5506 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5507 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5508 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5509 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5510 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5514 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5517 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5518 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5520 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5521 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5522 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5523 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5524 a given package, or -i or -a.
5525 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5526 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5527 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5528 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5529 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5530 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5531 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5532 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5533 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5535 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5536 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5537 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5541 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5543 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5544 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5545 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5550 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5553 does not have a section.
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5557 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5560 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5561 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5562 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5566 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * Fixed typo #16215.
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5572 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5575 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5576 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5577 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5578 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5579 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5584 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5587 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5588 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5589 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5594 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5600 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5606 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5609 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5610 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5611 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5612 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5613 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5614 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5618 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5624 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5627 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5631 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5634 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5635 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5636 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5640 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5643 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5647 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5653 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5655 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5656 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5660 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5663 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5667 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5673 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5676 postinst, postrm, etc.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5680 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5686 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5689 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5690 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5691 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5692 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5693 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5697 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5700 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5701 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5705 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5708 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5712 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5715 installing package files into.
5716 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5721 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5725 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5729 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5735 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5738 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5742 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5745 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5746 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5747 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5748 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5752 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5754 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5755 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5756 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5757 multiple binary packages.
5758 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5759 should rebuild them with this version.
5760 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5764 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5767 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5771 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5774 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5778 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5781 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5782 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5783 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5784 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5785 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5786 debian/README.debian.
5787 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5788 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5789 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5790 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5791 in a few situations.)
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5795 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5801 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5807 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5810 * Fixed several man pages.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5814 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5817 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5818 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5822 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5825 is ready for general use.
5826 * Added man pages for all commands.
5827 * Multiple binary package support.
5828 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5829 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5830 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5832 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5833 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5834 auto-installed as parameters.
5835 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5837 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5840 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5841 the package build directory it is to act on.
5842 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5843 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5844 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5848 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5850 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5851 ready to replace debstd.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400